Review of Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized

What is It about hypnotism and the media making everyone think it's so simple and easy. In reality it takes years of study and training, and most importantly, it's not exactly how It's presented in pop culture and other media. First off, the type of therapy Monk get's in this episode is Hypnotherapy, which is more or less a mind over body practice that a person can do on their own, but if they have a documented history of mental health issues or things like that then they do need to see a hypnotherapist. However the hypnotherist monk goes to see in this episode is more of a quack doctor, because while there documented cases of people over coming addictions, or even certain phobia's, the therapist uses hypnotic regression, which is unreliable and illegitimate science in the real world. Because he can't regress someone mentally to that of a child or into someone else for very long, in fact that famous dinner show hypnosis routine has actually caused a lot of problems for people who've under gone it in the long run because it creates false memories as well as creating long term trauma that actually can be damaging. Now there is some truth of using drugs and hypnotherapy to condition someone, but that too would have to take weeks, if not months to accomplish and it's quite possibly evil and criminal to do that to someone.

I'm glad that at least this episode recognizes that the science is bull and that Monk eventually snaps out of it on his own. Plus i knew that guy playing the hypnotist was an unreliable person, because he's played by Richard Schiff, who I knew as that guy from Jurassic Park II who got torn apart by two t-rex's.

But what saves this episode for me is Courtney Ford. Even if she's in something that totally sucks, it's still goanna be a lot of fun, because he makes it fun. Plus she makes a good villain in this.